Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 16: Panun Kashmir organised a get together of the Intellectual Forum of Kashmiri Pandits today. The event among others was attended by Ashwani Kumar Chrun-goo, Prof. M.L. Raina, D.N. Kissu, H.N.Jattu, A.K.Dewani, Kamal Bagati, B.N.Khar, Sardar Premsingh, KCS Mehta,Upinder Koul and Virender Raina National spokesman of PK.
The Forum expressed surprise at the recent statement of the Chairman United Nations Human Rights Council, (UNHRC) Zeid Raad al- Hussein that the Comission needs access to Kashmir to investigate the alleged human rights abuses by the Indian security forces.
The members expressed serious concern that the Comission never took any cognizance of the plight of the 7 lakh internally displaced Kashmiri Pandits who were subjected to genocide and ethnic cleansing and as result of which they had to suffer mass exodus from Kashmir.
Pakistan has been sponsoring terrorism in Kashmir for the last 27 years and as result of which Kashmiri Pandits were subjected to ethnic cleansing in Kashmir and the survivors are now living a life of refugees in their own country, they added.
The members expressed dismay that the Comission should have taken note of the victims of terror instead of expressing itself to investigate the alleged repression by the Indian security forces. They demanded from the comission as to why the Kashmiri Pandit aborigines who have a recorded history of having lived in Kashmir for more than 5000 years are not allowed to live peacefully in Kashmir.
Members appealed to the exalted comission to take a just and balanced view of the situation in Kashmir.The comission must not appear to be on the side of the perpetrators of terror and instead stand with the victims of terror.
The members also said that the Comission has a serious responsibility towards the victims of terror. Pakistan and it’s surrogates must not be allowed to use such statements as tacit approval for continued terrorism in Kashmir valley.
The members said that It is important for the UN HRC to know that the National Human Rights Commission of India has termed crimes against the Pandits in Kashmir as acts akin to genocide.The organised massacres of minorities in Kashmir at Sangrampura, Wandhama, Nadimarg, Telwani, Chittisin-gpura, Mahjoornagar etc. are some of the details of crimes against humanity in Kashmir. The human rights global watchdog needs to know all sides of the story and should not selectively choose to get overshadowed by concocted stories from one side only. This needs to be brought to the notice of the Council that hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits were massacred brutally by the terror forces in Kashmir, hundreds of their temples and shrines were destroyed in Kashmir while more than 35000 of their houses were gutted in the fire by the fundamentalist and extremist forces in Kashmir. Mass exodus was enforced upon them in 1990 by the fanatic elements who followed the scripted agenda of the Pakistan sponsored elements in Kashmir.
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